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A Comprehensive Categorization and Flowcharting for Schedule Delay Analysis Methods
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)A bewildering array of over two dozen delay analysis methods exists from which construction professionals may choose. However, no comprehensive comparison and synthesis have been made for all such methods as to their ... -
A Context-Specific Study of Construction Sector Anticorruption Framework
(ASCE, 2024/02/01)The construction industry is one of the sectors with the highest number of corruption cases. Construction workers are subjected to a variety of corrupt practices in the course of their work. Corrupt practices have a negative ... -
A Creative Proposal for Dispute Systems Design for Construction Projects Employing BIM
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013)Building information modeling (BIM) causes a fundamental change in the way participants in a construction project interact with each other, requiring new and significant levels of collaboration, information sharing, and ... -
A Critical Assessment of Material Price Adjustment Clauses for Transportation Design–Build Projects
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)The transportation construction industry is experiencing a substantial risk of material price volatility impacting owners and contractors in successful delivery of projects on budget and on time. The risk is significant ... -
A Hierarchical Fuzzy Expert System for Contractor Prequalification
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)The selection of qualified contractors for construction projects plays a pivotal role in ensuring the quality of project delivery, and as such, represents a critical decision for project owners. For an informed selection, ... -
A Legitimate Alternative for Unbalanced Bidding in Unit Price Contracts
(ASCE, 2023/11/01)Unit-price contracts are common in public construction projects. Such contracts expose contractors to economic risks due to deviations between owner-estimated quantities and actual quantities of work. Contractors typically ... -
A Path to Establishing Delay and Disruption Claims for Contracts Entered into Prior to the Start of the COVID-19 Pandemic
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2023/05/01)Since early 2020, COVID-19 has had devastating and ongoing health and economic impacts worldwide. The construction industry has not been immune to these impacts. Although construction was generally deemed essential, in ... -
A Procedure for Rebalancing Unbalanced Bidding in Unit Price Contracts
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2023/05/01)Unbalanced pricing in unit price contracts aims at gaining additional benefits for the contractor who utilizes this strategy at the expense of the owner, or obtaining a competitive advantage over other competing bidders ... -
A Sociolegal Analysis of Land Mafia Practices in Construction Projects
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2023/08/01)The term “land mafia” refers to a group of people who profit from the land law system by committing crimes such as fraud, forgery, and expropriation. This practice has been going on for a long time and has not been completely ... -
A Timeless Motto for Dispute Resolution: “Prevention Is Better Than Cure”
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A Timeless Motto for Dispute Resolution: “Prevention Is Better Than Cure”
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Adequately Protecting Construction Insolvencies: Disposition of Trusts to Facilitate Security of Payment in Australia
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)Responsibility for ensuring prompt payment and preventing default in the construction industry in Australia is placed on the security of payment legislation. A recent surge of insolvencies among construction entities ... -
Adjudication Practice and Its Enforceability in the Sri Lankan Construction Industry
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Administering Change Orders in Highway Projects
(ASCE, 2021-12-28)Change orders continue to be one of the main challenges faced by the construction industry. Despite many previous research efforts related to managing change orders in the construction industry, there is still a lack of ... -
Administering Employers’ Payment Obligations under National and International Design–Build Standard Forms of Contract
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